Love Etc Author:Bel Kaufman To the millions of Bel Kaufman's fans who made Up the Down Staircase into one of the most phenomenal international best sellers of the decade (and the movie of the book into a cinematic blockbuster) Love, etc. is a welcome return and a daring new departure. — All of Miss Kaufman's familiar virtues are abundantly here--warmth, grace, humor, compas... more »sion, wit--yet in theme and texture, this second novel is far more subtle and complex than the first.
On one level, this is an intensely romantic story of a mature woman's star-crossed love affair with an enigmatic stranger. On another, it is an exploration of that strange process by which a creative artist transmutes life into fiction and fiction back into life. And on yet another, it is the triumphant account of a woman's voyage from the shattering trauma of divorce toward wholeness and fulfillment.
But above all, this is a book about how people fall out of love and into love and about the joy, the despair, the poetry and passion--the manifold etceteras of love.
Love, etc. is one of those very special works of fiction that will be read, discussed and cherished for years to come.« less